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He was then charged and stigmatized with being the cause of the war, on the principle that there would be no highway robbers if there were nobody on the road to be robbed.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “He was then charged and stigmatized with being the cause of the war, on the principle that there would be no highway…”
Editor's note · Context
Douglass critiques the absurd logic that blames Black individuals for the violence inflicted upon them.
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